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For more advice about databases and search strategies, contact your Lane Liaison.

Selecting a Database

The first place to look for biomedical journal articles is often PubMed@Stanford. However, for most research questions, this is not the only (or even necessarily the best) place to look. This guide to databases can help you determine the best resources in which to locate journal articles, book chapters, and more.


Databases

Multiple-Resource Simultaneous Search

These metasearches are often a good place to start when you're seeking a quick answer and aren't sure which particular resource best suits your needs.

  • Lane's Clinical search (PubMed@Stanford, ClinicalResource@Ovid, UpToDate, more)
  • Lane's Bioresearch search (PubMed@Stanford, Entrez, Current Protocols, Methods in Enzymology, more)
  • ClinicalResource@Ovid (MEDLINE, textbooks, guidelines, more)
  • MD Consult (MEDLINE, textbooks, guidelines, more)
  • Entrez, the Life Sciences Search Engine
  • Ovid (Cochrane, MEDLINE, more)

Evidence Based Medicine

Drug Information

Article or Journal Citations

The first two resources are good for determining who cited a particular article. The last resource is good for determining what the top journals in a field are.

Journal Articles 

Books 

Book Chapters

Note that book chapters are not indexed routinely and can be difficult to find.

Newspaper Articles 

Current day's edition in print at Lane for the first three newspapers.

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